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Quantum Boost For Artificial Intelligence
Quantum computers that encode data in fuzzy quantum states might help advance artificial intelligence significantly.
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Father's Genetic Quest Pays Off
Hugh Rienhoff says that his nine-year-old daughter, Bea, is "a fire cracker", "a tomboy" and "a very sassy, impudent girl". But in a forthcoming research paper,...
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Drones in Science: Fly, and Bring Me Data
The Tempest—wingspan 3.2 metres, cruising speed 75 knots—was designed to fly into severe storms.
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Computer Memory Can Be Read with a Flash of Light
Modern computer-memory technologies come with a trade-off. There is speedy but short-term storage for on-the-fly processing—random-access memory, or RAM—and slow...
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Neuroprosthetics: Once More, With Feeling
Sitting motionless in her wheelchair, paralysed from the neck down by a stroke, Cathy Hutchinson seems to take no notice of the cable rising from the top of her...
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Diamond Shows Promise For Quantum Internet
Today's Internet runs on linked silicon chips, but a future quantum version might be built from diamond crystals.
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Moore's Law Is Not Just for Computers
Predicting the future of technology often seems a fool's game.
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Computer Engineering: Feeling the Heat
A laptop computer can double as an effective portable knee-warmer—pleasant in a cold office.
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Quantum Cryptography Conquers Noise Problem
It's hard to stand out from the crowd—particularly if you are a single photon in a sea of millions in an optical fibre.
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Computational Social Science: Making the Links
Jon Kleinberg's early work was not for the mathematically faint of heart.
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Color Printing Reaches Its ltimate Resolution
The highest possible resolution images—about 100,000 dots per inch—have been achieved, and in full-color, with a printing method that uses tiny pillars a few tens...
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Mind-Controlled Robot Arms Show Promise
Two people who are unable to move their limbs have been able to guide a robot arm to reach and grasp objects using only their brain activity, a paper in Nature ...
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Computer Modeling: Brain in a Box
A proposal by Swiss Federal Institute of Technology scientist Henry Markram to build a supercomputer model integrating all knowledge about the human brain is one...
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Next Generation of Supercomputers Requires Radical Redesign
The next generation of exascale supercomputers could complete one billion billion calculations per second, which would be 1,000 times faster than today's most powerful...
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News Mining Might Have Predicted Arab Spring
You could have foreseen the Arab Spring if only you'd been paying enough attention to the news. That's the claim of a new study that shows how data mining of...
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Hint of Higgs, but Little More
When its experiments started in earnest earlier this year, many scientists hoped that the world's most powerful collider would turn up new particles, additional...
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Full-Field Implementation of a Perfect Eavesdropper on a Quantum Cryptography System
Quantum key distribution allows two remote parties to grow a shared secret key. Its security is founded on the principles of quantum mechanics, but in reality...
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Computer Security: Is This the Start of Cyberwarfare?
The emergence of the Stuxnet worm signals that groups or nations could launch a cyberattack that targets critical infrastructure and threatens to cause physical...
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